April 7, 2014

REMOTE TROOPS CLOSER TO HAVING HIGH-SPEED WIRELESS NETWORKS MOUNTED ON UAVS





Mobile Hotspots program makes progress toward goal of providing 1 Gb/s
communications backbone to deployed units

Missions in remote, forward operating locations often suffer from a lack of connectivity to tactical operation centers and access to valuable intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data. The assets needed for long-range, high-bandwidth communications capabilities are often unavailable to lower echelons due to theater-wide mission priorities.